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    "localId": "4790",
    "label": "Intaglio with Hermes Holding a Cornucopia Set in a Ring",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.103"
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    "id": "4790",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with Hermes Holding a Cornucopia Set in a Ring",
    "description": "Hermes appears on this intaglio nude except for a petasos, sandals, and a cloak. He stands holding a cornucopia in his left hand and a caduceus in his right.",
    "provenance": "Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 56; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century BCE (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.103",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.7,
            "height": 2.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 1 1/16 x 13/16 in. (2.7 x 2.1 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "garnet; mount: gold",
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